CQ on Congress

The Obama administration has
taken a lot of heat for a Middle East policy that critics see as
naïve and feckless. A CQ Weekly cover story shows how it’s most
immediately playing out in Syria, where U.S. policy remains more or
less stuck in the same place it was three years ago. CQ's Adriel
Bettelheim and Intelligence...

Republicans, Democrats and the White House all agree
on the need to expand high-speed Internet to outlying areas. But
there are sticky questions about how to cover the cost, and
practical challenges to digging up thousands of miles of right of
way to lay high-speed networks.

A two-year agreement
to lift budget caps and raise the government’s debt ceiling is
speeding through Congress in time to beat a deadline for raising
the government’s borrowing authority. But it won’t end bitter
ideological fights over government spending and fiscal issues. CQ's
Adriel Bettelheim and Jane Norman...

Some pilots could be killed during ejections from the F-35 Joint
Strike Fighter being developed for the U.S. military under a nearly
$400 billion program to acquire the warplane of the future. CQ's
Adriel Bettelheim and Defense Writer John Donnelly discuss the
potential problem.